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Historical Archaeology: A Half Century Critique (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections, Practice, and Ethics in Historical Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical Archaeology had a slow and difficult birth across three decades. Even as late as 1967, the foundation year for the SHA, many archaeologists dismissed the field and opposed its establishment. The basic critique was "why excavate if you are dealing with documented history?" Fifty years later Historical Archaeology is...
Latin America’s New White Elephant: Museums and Exhibits of Pre-Hispanic Material Culture in the Post-Industrial City. (2016)
The “Bilbao effect,” or “Guggenheim effect” as it is also known, posits that spectacular architecture designed by star architects can help renew a city’s cultural sector and turn around a languishing economy. Many world museums in post-industrial cities have tried, with varying degrees of success, to reproduce the model implemented in Bilbao. In this talk we will explore how a focus on “wow-factor” architecture has transformed museums in Latin America, and in particular how this approach has...
More About the Unalachtigo (1975)
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